Yuk. My younger co worker insists on social media stalking all of our candidates even though I advise her not to

[Anonymous]

Maybe it is not quite the same thing, but we rent out our English basement apartment in DC and every time we screen new tenants we google the applicants extensively looking carefully at their online presence. We want to make sure they are not MAGA or otherwise crazy. We consider this more important and telling than an actual credit check.

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Anonymous wrote:We routinely Google our candidates. Do I care about their personal lives? Not at all. But I need to know they have the common sense and judgment to control their online presence. For example, we work with government customers; I would be very wary of a candidates with a ton of visible and inflammatory political opinions (regardless what side they are on). Especially since a customer could easily find it and attribute it to my company and our brand.

Yeah, pregnancy is a non-issue but this is relevant.

you dont think its an issue in that the employee will go on leave shortly after being hired and maybe never come back?

Of course not. Blip in the scheme of things for a good hire (and I think the odds of “maybe never come back” are small.

I was hired while pregnant myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a guy who killed all his co-workers, bankrupted his prior company, had a messy divorce and wife stole only child and took back to her home country. I found this out on-line and talking to people he knew I used to work with.

I liked him a lot, I still keep in touch with him. But I had a tiny department in a very conserative company. I know if I hired him my boss would find out or it would come out in background check. In my case a bankrupty automatically he would not be hired. Plus he had people he killed sue him that caused bankrupty. Also reason wife left him.

He would have failed background check but many he and the guy who was litterally a terrioset my oh my.

You know a guy who **killed** all his co-workers and you still keep in touch with him?

That seems rather dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it is not quite the same thing, but we rent out our English basement apartment in DC and every time we screen new tenants we google the applicants extensively looking carefully at their online presence. We want to make sure they are not MAGA or otherwise crazy. We consider this more important and telling than an actual credit check.

+1

SOP these days

[Anonymous]

I don't use any sicial media at all. I could keep her busy searching in vain for hours, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a guy who killed all his co-workers, bankrupted his prior company, had a messy divorce and wife stole only child and took back to her home country. I found this out on-line and talking to people he knew I used to work with.

I liked him a lot, I still keep in touch with him. But I had a tiny department in a very conserative company. I know if I hired him my boss would find out or it would come out in background check. In my case a bankrupty automatically he would not be hired. Plus he had people he killed sue him that caused bankrupty. Also reason wife left him.

He would have failed background check but many he and the guy who was litterally a terrioset my oh my.

Most of us aren’t chefs in prison kitchens so this is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We routinely Google our candidates. Do I care about their personal lives? Not at all. But I need to know they have the common sense and judgment to control their online presence. For example, we work with government customers; I would be very wary of a candidates with a ton of visible and inflammatory political opinions (regardless what side they are on). Especially since a customer could easily find it and attribute it to my company and our brand.

Yeah, pregnancy is a non-issue but this is relevant.

you dont think its an issue in that the employee will go on leave shortly after being hired and maybe never come back?

Of course not. Blip in the scheme of things for a good hire (and I think the odds of “maybe never come back” are small.

I was hired while pregnant myself.

Well that’s good for you but there is a reason that pregnancy became a protected class obviously.

Some of you people can’t seem to think past your own tiny world experience.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a guy who killed all his co-workers, bankrupted his prior company, had a messy divorce and wife stole only child and took back to her home country. I found this out on-line and talking to people he knew I used to work with.

I liked him a lot, I still keep in touch with him. But I had a tiny department in a very conserative company. I know if I hired him my boss would find out or it would come out in background check. In my case a bankrupty automatically he would not be hired. Plus he had people he killed sue him that caused bankrupty. Also reason wife left him.

He would have failed background check but many he and the guy who was litterally a terrioset my oh my.

You know a guy who **killed** all his co-workers and you still keep in touch with him?

That seems rather dangerous.

He is a nice guy and not his fault. The guy started his own IT business and hired all his good friends to work with him in a small office he rented. Company started 9-1-01. A high floor World Trade Center, he was running late for work that day. Everyone else on time as new company. Just 5-6 people. They all died. He put all his cash into that so that caused on same day bankrupty and no job. In meanwhile he had married a super hot girl he met in Mexico on Spring Break who was a shooter girl at Carlos and Charlies around 2-3 years earlier. They had one very young kid. Well when he went broke she took the kid without telling him and hoped on plane to Mexico and grabbed what cash she could get before creditors got to it. Then he had a nervous breakdown. He confessed after he tried to follow up to me as knew I must of found out. I stayed in touch and after 7 years went by and BK discharged I actually gave him a recommendation. But man he was a mess for a good 7-8 years. He never would have cleared background checks.

The wife cleaning out bank accounts of money owed creditors and lawsuits did not help. Nor the nervous break down. The guy is a VP on Wall Street today. Works at a company I used to work with and got hired after he cleared BK and lawsuits around 12 years later after 9/11-.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We routinely Google our candidates. Do I care about their personal lives? Not at all. But I need to know they have the common sense and judgment to control their online presence. For example, we work with government customers; I would be very wary of a candidates with a ton of visible and inflammatory political opinions (regardless what side they are on). Especially since a customer could easily find it and attribute it to my company and our brand.

Yeah, pregnancy is a non-issue but this is relevant.

you dont think its an issue in that the employee will go on leave shortly after being hired and maybe never come back?

Of course not. Blip in the scheme of things for a good hire (and I think the odds of “maybe never come back” are small.

I was hired while pregnant myself.

Well that’s good for you but there is a reason that pregnancy became a protected class obviously.

Some of you people can’t seem to think past your own tiny world experience.

In general pregnancy is a negative when hiring because you have to invest time training a new employee and then they have to take extensive time off during which you need to find someone to cover their work, and the risk they may not perform at the same capacity with a newborn at home is higher. Let's stop pretending like there is zero difference and that our workplace culture is friendly towards mothers of young babies

If discrimination were allowed nobody would hire pregnant women or people with any obvious medical issues. It's just common sense, it's why we have protected categories.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We routinely Google our candidates. Do I care about their personal lives? Not at all. But I need to know they have the common sense and judgment to control their online presence. For example, we work with government customers; I would be very wary of a candidates with a ton of visible and inflammatory political opinions (regardless what side they are on). Especially since a customer could easily find it and attribute it to my company and our brand.

Yeah, pregnancy is a non-issue but this is relevant.

you dont think its an issue in that the employee will go on leave shortly after being hired and maybe never come back?

Of course not. Blip in the scheme of things for a good hire (and I think the odds of “maybe never come back” are small.

I was hired while pregnant myself.

Well that’s good for you but there is a reason that pregnancy became a protected class obviously.

Some of you people can’t seem to think past your own tiny world experience.

In general pregnancy is a negative when hiring because you have to invest time training a new employee and then they have to take extensive time off during which you need to find someone to cover their work, and the risk they may not perform at the same capacity with a newborn at home is higher. Let's stop pretending like there is zero difference and that our workplace culture is friendly towards mothers of young babies

If discrimination were allowed nobody would hire pregnant women or people with any obvious medical issues. It's just common sense, it's why we have protected categories.

^^ wanted to say, I completely agree with the PP. Anyone who cannot see how employer finding out you are far along in your pregnancy is going to end up badly for you is a dim bulb. It ends up badly for women already employed when they announce they are expecting, happens all the time.

[Anonymous]

Many people check social media for various reasons, including preparing for a job interview, vetting a prospective tenant, checking out a date, etc. It is what it is, and if you don't want someone to know something about you, don't put it out there to be found.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it is not quite the same thing, but we rent out our English basement apartment in DC and every time we screen new tenants we google the applicants extensively looking carefully at their online presence. We want to make sure they are not MAGA or otherwise crazy. We consider this more important and telling than an actual credit check.

You sound crazy.